Tracing Dems' China failure to 'catastrophic' Clinton administration decision to delink trade policy from human rights, Maura Moynihan says party 'has to realize its hands are covered in blood.'

By Alex Nitzberg, May 3, 2020 -

Maura Moynihan — a lifelong liberal, an Asia expert and the daughter of the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan — is lambasting the Democratic Party for decades of financial co-dependency with Communist China that she says has caused the party to turn a selectively blind eye toward human rights.

"The Democrat Party has to wake up. It has to realize its hands are covered in blood if it continues to defend and protect the evil Chinese Communist Party. They should align with Republicans," said Moynihan, a longtime critic of Beijing and activist for Tibet.

Moynihan told Just the News that Democrats' failure on China policy can be traced to the decision by President Bill Clinton a quarter century ago to delink human rights and trade policy with Beijing. That decision followed by a fundraising scandal in which illegal foreign donations from China flowed into Democratic coffers proved "catastrophic," she said in an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast.

Normalizing U.S.-China trade followed by Beijing gaining admittance to the World Trade Organization before the end of Clinton's tenure as president meant that "tax dollars of American citizens have gone to build Communist China into a global hegemon, a military superpower that is trying to destroy the United States."

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, likewise, recently told John Solomon Reports that he was wrong in his past belief that its entry into the WTO would lead to a positive change in China's behavior. Moynihan said Democrats have been "selective" when it comes to defending human rights around the world, repeatedly embracing China despite its poor record of treating its own citizens and, more recently, failing to alert the world more quickly about coronavirus.

"I feel very, very disappointed with the Democratic Party for normalizing the CCP, for normalizing putting your money into the CCP and taking money from the CCP," Moynihan said.

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